Since picking up a few NFC tags I've been experimenting with automation apps to run tasks for certain contexts (e.g. Car dock).
The apps I've tried (e.g. Trigger) are great at running tasks when the ...

I have an NFC tag that contains URL (example: sms:050555555?body=Hello). There are a few NFC reader applications on my phone (LG G3).
The first couple of times after I read the tag it asked me which ...

I know that Square, for instance, makes payment card readers you can attach to phones in order to make transactions using the mag strip, and they're soon to release a new card reader designed for EMV ...

If a single user taps a single tag a single time, can the tag be encoded such that it both sends an SMS (or, at least, launches the SMS app) and launches a URL connection?
Is this the best S.E site ...

I just got a Yubikey NEO (NFC) that emits an NDEF (i.e. it must be a URI or text... the configration tool does not allow anything else) and appends an emitted OTP.
When using the Yubikey to unlock my ...

I am using NFC tag to run Car application, and to set volume up in car on my HTC M8. But after I go out of the car I must to manually close application and set volume down.
Please, is there a way how ...

My Samsung Galaxy SIII comes with a battery with an Near Field Communications (NFC) label on it. Several earlier Android modles don't come with such a label on the battery. I would like to know what ...

This is a very strange problem, so I'm sorry if I describe in in a confusing way.
For the past few days, I've been playing around with NFC on my Oneplus One phone. I installed a few apps (NXP TagInfo ...

I want to use the Smart Lock feature of Android 5.0 Lollipop together with NFC. I've configured it and it works well, but my problem is, that after scanning the NFC Tag (and also after unlocking the ...

When I bought my Samsung Galaxy SIII, there was a big buzz about the new phones
on the market supporting NFC (Near-Field Communications). However, given that
Blutooth exchange of files and even the ...

I live in a youth hostel of an university and we access our rooms and labs by using a contactless key card. I want to clone my card to my phone.
Is it possible to copy when it is key protected? Can ...

So I want to buy a high-end tablet from Samsung. But I have a more general question, then the specs.
So the Tabs does not have a NFC chip inside it. But I am planning to buy an external NFC reader, ...

I have a Moto X (2013 version) -- and use Google Wallet's tap-to-pay at merchants that support it. With certain readers, I end up moving the phone around over the reader until it works; knowing where ...

I would like to use a single authentication for Bluetooth(BLE and classic), wifi and NFC between an android phone and a wearable device.Which means , say i connect a phone and another wearable through ...

I copied a new bluetooth.apk and nfcnci.apk to my CyanogenMod 11 hammerhead on my Nexus 5. I copied a new Bluetooth.apk because my phone wouldn't recognize and connect to my wireless headphones but no ...

I have a Samsung S4 mini, stock Jellybean ROM. I have several browsers installed, one of which is Firefox configured for browsing through a proxy. When I tap on an NFC tag, Android opens up Firefox - ...

The NTAG216 can hold 800+ bytes of information. But when I scan it with my Samsung S4, it will only show 5 lines of text followed by an ellipses (...) which is at most about 270 bytes. I've tried it ...

Can we read RFID like QR-bar code without NFC in Android? I am confused because we can read QR-Barcode with simple apps like Bar Code Scanner. After searching 2-3 hours I found NFC with every detail ...

I have a problem with sharing files between my Galaxy S2 phone and a Sony Vaio model SVF1521DCXW with NFC support1. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop version and I don't have any idea how can I use NFC ...

I want to use the YubiKey NEO with Chrome, and when I tap the NFC sensor to the phone, the only app I can use is Firefox.
I would like to have SSO work with Chrome, but not sure how they were able to ...

May I know if it is possible to transfer file from one phone using NFC to another phone using blue-tooth?
I know it is possible to transfer file from one NFC to another NFC. Also, it is possible to ...

For the Cafeteria a school we have NFC badges with which we pay meals or drinks.
I was wondering how is it possible to have the card on my phone? I lost it 5 times last year.
I've tried to copy the ...

In NFC P2P communication, the RF speed of the LLCP connection is set by the Initiator. The possible speeds are 106kbit/s, 212kbit/s, 424kbit/s.
Android always choses the fastest possible speed.
For ...

After replacing the back cover on my Nexus 4, the ability to read NFC tags has decreased significantly. I replaced the back cover of my Nexus 4 with an original(!) replacement because the glass had ...

I've had a Nexus 7 2012 and in the tiny manual there was an indication on where exactly I should touch my phone on it to get NFC communication - near the "e" in the back. That worked great, as I know ...

I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and the phone was in my pocket. I forgot that my credit card was also in the same pocket and just out of nowhere my phone played the notification sound, so I pulled it out ...

I am currently doing a research on Android phones, trying to find the "best" Android phones in terms of their ability to read-write to NFC cards.
I read that there are phones that struggle to power ...

On clicking the NFC checkbox in settings, it turns off by itself after about 2 seconds.
It's a used phone which I bought from a friend more than a year ago and it's always been like this since it had ...

I just completed my Android application which scans NFC tags. When an NFC tag comes near the device, the device tries to show all the apps which can scan the NFC tag.
I want it to remember which app ...

When I try to send a contact from one nexus 5 to another, Android Beam fails (everything is enabled). Other things such as a pic, a Play App link, etc. work just fine.
When I pull the log, I can see ...